Lost in Space (TV series)
Lost in Space (TV series).[1]. Irwin Allen, creator, one of many directors. CBS B/W 1965-66, color 1966-68.
See for "The Robot": "The Robot is a Class M-3 Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, which had no given name. Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics, such as laughter, sadness, and mockery, as well as singing and playing a guitar. [...] The Robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita, who was also the designer of the iconic Robby the Robot for Forbidden Planet."[2] If not Robby himself — and The Robot is gendered male — then the Lost in Space robot is a mechanical/cybernetic clone or close relative. Tag-line for Robot, "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!" — protecting the boy (significantly). Cf. and contrast LOST IN SPACE (film).
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Lost in Space. Netflix 2018 f. (scheduled 2018, 2019. 2021 [sic]). Creators: Irwin Allen, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless[3] Ross Dempster (10 episodes, 2018) and Frank Walsh (10 episodes, 2019), production design.[4]
Produced by Legendary Television, Synthesis Entertainment, Clickety-Clack Productions, and Applebox Entertainment, the show is written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, with Zack Estrin serving as showrunner. Netflix released the series on April 13, 2018,[1] renewing it the following month for a second season.[2] The second season premiered on December 24, 2019.[3] On March 9, 2020, the series was renewed for a third and final season, which is scheduled for a 2021 release.[5]
Wikipedia entry gives the premise as follows:
In the aftermath of an impact event that threatens the survival of humanity, the Robinson family is selected for the 24th mission of the Resolute (24th Colonist Group), an interstellar spacecraft carrying selected families to colonize the Alpha Centauri star system.
Before they reach their destination, an alien robot breaches the Resolute's hull. Forced to evacuate the mothership in short-range Jupiter spacecraft, scores of colonists, among them the Robinsons, crash on a nearby habitable planet. There they must contend with a strange environment and battle their own personal demons as they search for a way back to the Resolute.[6]
Reviewed by Walter Andrew Shephard, SFRA Review 325 (Summer 2018): 37-39.[7] See for comparison and contrast with original series, including excellent brief discussions of the handling in the new show of gender, ethnic diversity, class, scientific verisimilitude and related issues. Not much on the robot initially, but the series seems to be moving toward explanation of that "alien robot" and its, and/or its controllers, motives.
Discussed in Jon Abbott's Irwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2006), itself reviewed by Lincoln Geraghty, SFRA Review #282 (Sept/Oct/Nov 2007) — On line, "Oct/Nov/Dec 2007" — pp. 6-7.[8]
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